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Bullying and theory of mind

Peter K. Smith looks at the social skills underlying bullying and how we can use such insights to deal with the problem

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‘It started when I went to middle school, the taunting and name-calling … At first it was only a couple of boys but soon it became a class game … it began to spread through the school … Some of the class above started calling me names and even some of the younger kids. The taunts followed me round wherever I went … ‘No one likes you. Why don’t you go and put your head in the toilet?’… It was at secondary school that it got really bad. At home I began to have nightmares about what they’d do to me the next day … they’d be waiting for me … I could never relax … The nightmares didn’t stop.’

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